Published in 1944.

It is a curious fact, symptomatic of democratic blindness during the wasted years, that Mein Kampf was not made fully available to the English-speaking world until the year in which Hitler openly, launched his armed assault upon civilization. Hitler's recent speeches, edited by Norman Baynes, were not published in translation, even in Great Britain, until the years of disaster, 1940. The Westem democracies were not forewarned because their peoples had no desire to be forewarned. The present volume completes the all-too-belated work of Hitlerian documentation. It is indispensable to an adequate understanding of the enemy. And to know the enemy is half the battle.

Dr. Prange deserves thanks on two grounds for painstakingly bringing together the present compilation. He has made available, chiefly from the files of the Volkischer Beobachter, many of Hitler's statements which are nowhere else to be found in English. He has also edited and arranged the material in a fashion which insures its maximum readability and usefulness to the general reader. It is a safe guess that few Americans have had the hardihood to wade through all of the turgid prose of Mein Kampf, and those who have done so have seen the Fuehrer and bis Bewegung only in the early years of the Nazi frenzy. The 2000 pages of Hitler's speeches issued in chronological order and with full texts, under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, are too formidable for any but specialists. Even the 1000 pages of My New Order, edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, are likewise not easy reading for the layman.

But here, in less than 400 pages, are all of Hitler's more important pronouncements, arranged by broad topics and so assembled as to present a complete ideological and political panorama of the awe inspiring son of Alois Schicklgruber. Each excerpt is identified as to time, place and source. Many are commented upon in helpful footnotes.

Hitler's basic conceptions of politics and human relations are clearly presented in ''Pillars of the Faith."  In ''The Dynamics of Lebensraum" the reader can trace the course of the Nazi will-to-conquest and its stereotyped rationalizations. The sections on '' Democracy, Pacifism and Internationalism,'' '' Culture Politics,'' '' Perish the Jew" and "Bolshevik Bugaboo" comprise a striking self-portrait of the Nazi Weltanschauung. The sections on "Strategy of Peace," "Assurances, Pledges and Promises",  and "Partners for Conquest" illustrate the techniques of Nazi diplomacy, while "The Stab-in-the-Back Myth" and "Wilson's Fourteen Points" pose persistent problems of political and psychological warfare which each day's events render more pressing.